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‘They Could Come Here and Try to Silence Us’
While Iran is politically isolated, some of the regime’s top brass could be living in the West—and in Canada. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Some Iranians living in Canada fear that its lenient refugee system could allow regime officials to target them again.
By Casey Babb
12.09.25 — Canada
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It was easy to miss something Benjamin Netanyahu said a day after approving the strike against Iran’s nuclear program in June. “We have indications that senior leaders in Iran are already packing their bags. They sense what’s coming,” the Israeli prime minister said.

Videos on social media showed vehicles speeding across a tarmac and passenger planes leaving Tehran’s main airport—signs that Netanyahu’s intelligence was likely correct.

If anyone did make a run for it, though, where did they go?

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Casey Babb
Dr. Casey Babb is director of the Promised Land Project at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Center for North American Prosperity and Security, a fellow with the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, and an adviser with Secure Canada as well as Doctors Against Racism and Antisemitism, in Toronto.
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